There are certain areas of a person's life that should be kept private. One of those is the internet. The people of America should be able to keep their internet use to themselves. The government should not regulate citizens internet use because it takes away peoples freedom of speech, it would cost the government more money, and it is an invasion of citizens privacy. The government regulates many situations in citizens life and this should not be one of them. The first reason the American government should not regulate the internet is because of cost. The government would to spend money on the equipment to regulate the internet. According to Robert McDowell from the Washington post "Paired with the amount of money that would have to be spent on creating filters and sifting through the almost infinite amount of information available would be staggering" (3). This would just something else the government would have to spend the countries money on. This would take people to go through the internet and the …show more content…
This Amendment gives the citizens freedom of speech, by regulating the government this would threaten it. According to James Gattuso "that any individual with a visible presence in cyberspace is a "public figure" with the ability to publicly challenge any defamatory information" (6). This meaning that if someone is on the internet they should be able to speak their mind. Also citizens should not have to worry about the government watching everything that they say on the internet. The Amendments in America are important. One of " the most cherished rights granted to Americans, the right to free speech and freedom of press"(Gattuso 1). Scene this being one of the most cherished Amendments in America it would be a terrible idea of trying to take it away. The government controlling the internet would only upset people and cause unnecessary violence. This is why the government should not control the
...rk with us. This can have a major impact on the economy, and may eventually lead to a weakened nation overall. However, it can be argued that the United States is not acting hypocritical through mass surveillance over the internet. While there's some overlap of the issues, the existence of surveillance does not cut off the freedom of speech on the Internet."One can recognize... there is a very large difference between censorship and spying... On some level, we know that spying and espionage is going to take place. This still doesn't mean we promote censorship." (Verveer, 2013) Undoubtedly, the censorship by the agency over the internet may make users think twice about what opinions to express, but as long as no major crimes are being planned, then the agency will not really care about what is said online, and internet users are free to say whatever they would like.
Imagine a place where you have access to anything and everything one could want. Some would say that is only existent in a utopia, and some would say that describes the Internet. Many adults go on to the net and access pornographic material that would be unsuitable for children. This is called cyberporn. The controversy lies in the fact that children are accessing these materials also. Government, activist groups, and concerned parents are fighting to regulate obscene material found over the Internet to protect children. The first amendment is the only thing protecting adults from losing their rights to obtain pornographic or indecent material on the net. Under the first amendment the government must not regulate cyberporn. Online sex has been around since the first bulletin boards were available over the computer in the early 1980's. People would pay to down load pornographic pictures and talk dirty to each other. Usenet groups took control of porn after the Internet came about. They did not charge people to down load picture and to interact with others. In result, Internet porn grew (Rosen 16). Things have changed drastically since then with over a million different sites available to access porn. Now it is not just for adults. Children are accessing the obscene materials. This brings rise to issues of how to protect them from problems that can arise. The materials they view, could influence children. They could also be subjected to cybersex in a chat room full of people that could be three times their age. Worst of all pedophilias could influence children to meet with them outside of the computer. The government and the United States citizens must now figure out how to protect our children from the effects of cyberporn, and y...
The First Amendment states ( U.S Constitution ,1787) "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise there of, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." So in other words, the government is not allowed to deny us our freedom of speech and religion. I agree with the First Amendment. The government should not be allowed to control what we have to say. It would be like them controlling our thoughts. The government would then be able to control everything and that would be dangerous. The founding fathers knew that so they put the first amendment in place for that very reason. We are all individuals with our own thoughts and opinions and it should stay that way.
...n America and in the world as well. If the United States government puts any constraints on the Internet, then the First Amendment will be broken. Due to the freedoms granted to the citizens of the United States by the First Amendment, the Internet should never be censored in America.
Internet is a powerful tool that allows users to collaborate and interact with others all over the world conveniently and relatively safely. It has allowed education and trade to be accessed easily and quickly, but all these benefits do not come without very taxing costs. This is especially true when dealing with the likes of the Internet. Countries in the European Union and Asia have realized this and have taken action against the threat of net neutrality to protect their citizens, even at the cost of online privacy. Internet censorship is required to protect us from our opinions and vices. Every country should adopt Internet censorship and regulation since it improves society by reducing pornography, racism/prejudice, and online identity theft.
"The action of monitoring the internet, social media, and other internet based platforms does against both the Fifth Amendment as well as human rights. Schools and the federal government should not have the right to monitor the private use of the internet the way monitoring is currently being done. The federal government claims to be monitoring citizens to protect cyber-terrorism and potential threats to the nation. This process has been shown to work; however, while the government is collecting information to “protect†the United States, it is also using the collected information to analyze the citizens of the United States. The fight against international and domestic terrorism is on-going and the federal government works to keep its
The whole idea of federalism and separation of powers was to make sure that we never let the government, or a certain part of it have too much power. Allowing unlimited surveillance power kind of defeats the purpose that the framers had in mind. A lot of people will argue that since the country is in a time of war(war against terror, the restrictions should be lifted. Let’s take a look at the bill of rights. The fourth amendment states, “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause.” The internet is where we do everything. The framers did not have anything similar to the internet when they wrote the constitution but it can be implied that the internet is similar to their papers. If somebody searches something in the privacy of their home, it should be kept private. We can also use the ninth amendment to strengthen of privacy over security. The ninth amendment states, “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” Even though the right to internet privacy is not directly stated in the constitution, it can’t be denied to the
Does the amendment really protect us? As we have seen television shows such as cold case, CSI, other discovering murdering case shows we learn that not all privacy is protected. The government is already allowing us freedom and protection but we have neither. “In seconds, they can track almost everywhere Jason Bourne, the main character, has been and where he’s going – his flights, train trips and hotels” (The Bourne Identity, 2002). The government has gone out of control based off this movie showing how they can examine your online behavior and track your online data.
"The internet is something that most people are connected to and use from looking at funny pictures on social media sites for storing private and sensitive information like medical records. People’s internet content shows a lot about someone and who they really are and that is something most people would like to keep private. However, can anyone, specifically the US government, access or monitor your internet content? Well, the simple answer is sometimes. The reasons for this vary through different levels of the government, from the local, state, and the federal government.
The government should only have the duty to monitor the internet for 2 reasons. First, to monitor for sales of illegal items as well as illegal websites. The second is for crime prediction on social media and to prevent illegal activities. They should monitor for the first, because they need to be able to shut down the illegal black market websites selling illegal weapons or drugs. There are many of these websites in the deep web and we need to try to shut down as many as we possibly can.
The internet has been one of the most influential technological advancements of the twenty-first century. It is in millions of homes, schools, and workplaces. The internet offers not only a way of communicating with people around the world, but also a link to information, shopping, chatting, searching, and maps. This freedom to be anyone and to "go" anywhere right from the comfort of home has become a cherished item. However, there is always a down side to every up. Because of the freedom to post anything and access anything on the internet, the issue of regulation has arisen; for example, what should and should not be allowed on the internet? Who has the right to regulate this space that we cherish for its freedom?
Most of the Internet regulation is imposed by the Government in an effort to protect the best interest of the general public and is concerned with some form of censorship.
The Internet provides a gateway for an individual to speak freely and anonymously without being targeted to what he or she said. With this said, one of the biggest issues concerning the Internet today is freedom of speech. The issue of free speech on the Internet has been a topic of discussion around the world within the past years. It is a unique communication medium and is powerful than the traditional media[2]. Because the Internet can not be compared equally to other mediums of communication, it deserves the utmost freedom of speech protection from the government. The restriction of speech on the Internet takes away from individual's rights and freedom from experiencing the Internet's benefits and uses. Information found on the Internet is endless and boundless and this poses the question, "should the government be allowed to regulate the information and content being transmitted or posted online?"
Today, society is affected by the many advances in technology. These advances affect almost every person in the world. One of the prevalent advances in technology was the invention and mass use of the Internet. Today more than ever, people around the world use the Internet to support their personal and business tasks on a daily basis. The Internet is a portal into vast amounts of information concerning almost every aspect of life including education, business, politics, entertainment, social networking, and world security. (idebate.com) Although the Internet has become a key resource in developing the world, the mass use of Internet has highlighted a major problem, privacy and the protection of individual, corporate, and even government security . The argument over whether or not the Internet should be controlled by the government has developed into a controversial issue in almost every country in the world.
Overall the Internet should be a free network. However to make the Internet a safer place their may be some regulations implanted like stronger age restriction laws and validation laws to make online transactions safer. There is no need for governments or different organizations to get involved over small situations, they should only be allowed to intervene when it is a national or even global threat or crisis.